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Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material



On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:56:08PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Howdy,
> > I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a
> > right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you
>  
> Perhaps, but please go into your library and tell me how many racist books 
> are in there. I would be more than willing to bet that your average library 
> does not go out of it's way to include offensive books. 

Hmm, I find some parts of the Bible pretty offensive.  I plan to submit a 
bug against the bible-kjv package listing the verses that I find offensive, 
and request that the maintainer of that package either edit them out or find 
less offensive replacements.  He will also have the option of creating a 
"bible-kjv-am" package which only includes the sections that I like.
 
> So, if someone creates a program that has a button that says "Please Click 
> Here," and that button initializes the hard disk, are we to assume the 
> package maintainer is not to edit it so to avoid infringing on Upstream's 
> rights (exactly how many rights they actually have when dealing with a 
> private project is on shaky ground).

Are you a troll or just plain stupid?

Either way, <plonk>.

--Adam

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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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